Chapter 1- New Beginnings

It had been a whole year since Winston initiated the Overwatch agent recall and over time the once torn apart organization was beginning to come together. With many agents both new and old, the organization began to grow as more people began to join their fight against Talon and the criminal empires of the world. Old agents included Jack Morrison, Ana Amari, Reinhardt, and Torbjorn which were 4 of the 6 original founders of Overwatch. Others included Genji, Mercy, Lucio, McCree and other entering agents.

The Overwatch agency was still not approved for re-establishment by the UN so they were to blame if anything happened as a result of their actions. For the time being, Winston was acting-leader of the agency. He kept tabs on all Talon activity and sent agents where necessary.

Winston was currently in his lab overviewing Talon strike patterns. Their attacks were becoming rarer. Winston scratched his chin as he observed his computer screen more thoroughly.

"This doesn't make sense. Why are their attacks becoming more rare? Talon is usually more active." Said Winston to no one in particular.

Winston opened up a map of the world and scrolled through the location of Talon attacks over the last few weeks. In just two days, the attacks went from 30 to 5 in the whole world. In a way Winston was relieved but he was also worried. He went over to a chalkboard and wrote down the locations of the attacks and recorded anything he could about the location. He then sat and pondered this in his head.

"Something is wrong. They must be planning something big." Said Winston

His alone time was interrupted when he heard a sound and suddenly an old friend appeared behind him as he was writing.

"Whatcha doin' luv? Talkin to yourself again aye?" said Tracer as she popped out behind Winston, scaring him and causing him to accidently draw a line across the board.

"Lena!? What did I tell you about sneaking up on me while I'm working?"

"Oops! Sorry luv. Just wanted to check up on ya. You've seemed stressed lately and I felt some company would do you good." replied Lena

Winston sighed and turned around to look back at the hologram of the globe with Talon strike locations.

"Thanks Lena but I'm stressed for the right reasons." Said Winston

Tracer walked next to Winston and looked at the globe with a serious look and her finger placed on her chin as she observed the hologram.

"Talon's attack rate has diminished greatly over two days and I find it to be concerning." Said Winston.

Lena looked at Winston with a confused look "Isn't that a good thing? Less strikes means less danger, less danger means less stress. Right?" asked Lena

"In some circumstances yes. But this is highly unusual for them." said Winston as he took off his glasses and rubbed the bridge of his nose. Lena looked down in thought for a moment before standing up straight and smiled.

"Well then we just got to keep our eyes open for any strange activity…" started Lena before Blinking to an unknown location and coming back to Winston as she handed him a jar of peanut butter. Winston eyed it curiously for a moment before looking back at Lena.

"Til' then, take a break. See ya luv" said Lena in her happy tone before walking out of Winston's lab.

Winston smiled in the direction Lena left and looked down at the peanut butter. He decided a few minutes might do him some good. He went upstairs and sat down in his tire before grabbing a banana and proceeding to open the peanut butter jar with his mouth. He spat the lid in the still growing pile and proceeded to eat his favorite snack.

Winston didn't notice that behind him the projection of the globe with Talon strikes had changed. Red dots signaled the sights of current Talon attacks and blue signified Overwatch troops in a matter of moments, all the blue dots disappeared.

Gibraltar Mess Hall-11:30am

In the mess hall, Overwatch agents were eating breakfast and chatting amongst each other. Many of which had started to become close friends and acquaintances. Solder: 76 entered the mess hall, grabbed a tray of food and then proceeded to retreat to his quarters. He enjoyed his alone time, especially considering no one knew he was really Commander Morrison under his mask. Reinhardt was in a corner table with some of the new soldiers and was making them laugh along with some of his hilarious jokes. Pharah and her mother Ana Amari were in the opposite corner talking. The mother and daughter didn't even remember they had gotten food because they were too busy catching up with some much lost family time.

All the tables had more than one occupant, except for one. Genji was sitting on a lone chair in the corner sharpening his secondary sword with his eye mask off. His vision was very sensitive due to the damage he sustained in the fight with his brother years ago. However, it gave him pleasure using his own eyes from time to time.

"Genji." Asked a female voice.

Genji looked up at a female dressed in white, but his eyes were sensitive to light so he put his eye mask back on to concentrate on the figure better. It was then revealed to him to be Mercy.

"Oh. Good morning Angela He said."

"Too you as well. Sharpening your blade yet again I see." Said Mercy as she observed the blade for a moment.

Genji held up the blade to show her "Always sharp, always ready." He said before proceeding to sheath it. Angela took a seat next to him and took out a tool with a needle at the end of it. She then looked at Genji who sighed and said "That time again I see." Genji turned his back to Angela and leaned forward as she proceeded to take the back plate of his armor off to reveal a system of wires, tubes, and other robotic parts on Genji's back. Only a small portion of his back had actual human skin. There was a hole in Genji's back the Mercy stuck the tip through and the device looked like it was extracting data.

"Yeah. But it's only once a week. Always have to run this system check to make sure you're working properly. Like you said 'Always sharp, always ready." Quoted Angela.

Genji gave a slight chuckle under the mask "Words to live by."

Mercy smiled as she pulled the device out of Genji and connected it to a laptop she had on hand. She reviewed the data from the system check and it looked like all of Genji's human functions were running properly. The was some minor mechanical issues with the right arm that wasn't allowing it to operate at full capacity but other than that Genji was fully functional. Angela spaced out, losing her smile and thought about something she heard earlier today. Genji noticed Angela was silent and looked at her and asked "is everything ok?"

Angela snapped out of her trance and looked at Genji before looking back at her laptop and quickly closed it.

"Everything's fine. Just some minor mechanical issues with your right arm. I can fix it here really quick."

Genji turned back around as Angela began to repair the systems for the right silence. Genji heard Angela slow down and sigh for a moment before continuing.

"Are you sure?" asked Genji

"Yes it's fine. Just, being thorough." Replied Angela.

"I meant with you." Said Genji as he turned his head slightly to see her behind him.

Angela put on her best fake smile as she continued to work.

"I sense you are stressed. Take it from me, it is not wise to hide ones emotions inside."

Angela stopped working on Genji and sighed.

"It's not my emotions I'm worried about."

Genji knew this was about him and he wanted to know what it was. Not just to give himself closure, but help Angela ease her stress. "What is it?" he asked

Angela sighed in defeat as she knew Genji would find out on his own soon enough anyway. "You remember when you went to Hanamura to confront your brother Hanzo?" she asked in a hesitant tone. "Yes. What of it? Has something happened to him?" asked Genji curiously.

"Yes. I overheard some soldiers in communications speak of a new batch of recruits that are en-route to Gibraltar and they are going to be arriving tomorrow. But…"

"But what?" asked Genji looking back at Mercy.

"Hanzo is one of them. Genji, your brother is coming here. He joined Overwatch." She said slowly, trying to break the news to Genji since his brother was a sensitive subject.

Genji was silent as he faced straight ahead once more and leaned his head down in thought. Angela finished her work on Genji's arm and put the back plate of his armor back on. As soon as she did, Genji stood up, his back still to Mercy.

"I Know you and Hanzo haven't been on good terms ever since he did…this, to you." said mercy gesturing to Genji.

Genji turned to Mercy and said "I have come to terms with what happened to me. I cannot let my past with him consume my better judgment. I must face him and try to repair the bond we lost. I only fear he has not yet forgiven himself for what he did." Said Genji as he turned to face mercy.

"Maybe he is trying to repair your bond as well. If he is coming here then maybe he is trying to make amends." Replied Mercy reassuringly.

"That May be. I must be off now. I need to prepare myself to face him once more, thank you Angela."

Genji gave a slight bow before turning to exit the mess hall, leaving Mercy alone. "Good Luck." She said before standing to go back to her table.

Gibraltar-Soldier: 76's room (12:00am)

Morrison entered his room which was rather vague of any decoration and very organized with his pulse rifle on his bed. He placed his lunch on his desk and took off his mask, revealing his slightly wrinkled skin and the scar over his face. He placed the mask on his desk and held up a picture of all the Overwatch agents from 'the good old days' and slightly smiled. He placed the picture down and said in a hushed tone "We're coming back together."

Morrison turned back to his food and began eating as he noticed a drop ship out his window flying towards Watchpoint: Gibraltar. The ship was smoking from behind and he noticed the left thruster was struggling to stay on, not to mention the heavy battle damage on the ship. His eyes widened as he said "Shit!" Morrison quickly put his mask back on and grabbed the pulse rifle from his bed before running out his door to the landing pad.

When Morrison got outside he noticed the crowd of Overwatch agents and soldiers around the landing pad, pointing at the drop ship and talking in panicked voices all around. Mercy, Lucio, Reinhardt, Ana, and Torbjorn were in the front of the crowd observing the ship struggle to make its way to the landing pad. Morrison ran to where they were and asked "What happened?" "Not sure, I just saw the ship and made my way outside as soon as I saw it." Said Reinhardt.

"Let's just hope it lands safely." Said Torbjon. Genji, Winston, and Tracer had just ran outside and saw the drop ship approaching. The left thruster suddenly exploded, making the agents and soldiers gasp at the sight. Morrison noticed the ship begin to pick up speed. It was clear it was going to make a severe impact with the ground. He turned around and yelled "Everyone take cover! She's coming in too hot!" With that everyone began to run away from the landing platform as the ship came in. Genji noticed Mercy was running in front of the ship as fast as she could and he knew she was going to get hit. "Angela!" yelled Genji as he ran towards her. He wrapped her in his arms and pushed her out of the way as the ship made ground impact. Genji got on top of Angela to shield her from any debris. Winston did what Genji did, he shielded Tracer and a few other agents from the ship's debris as it skidded across the ground, making rocks and dirt tumble around as it created smoke and dust all around. The rest of the agents and soldiers ducked behind objects around the landing pads with their hands over their heads.

The drop ship slammed into a rock wall as it jerked to a stop. Once the dust cleared, everyone saw the severely damaged drop ship, with fire coming from different areas and a cloud of smoke creating above it. Many people coughed as a result of the dust around them. Angela opened her eyes to see Genji on top of her. "Thanks." She said. Genji got off of her and offered her a hand to pull her up "now we're even." He said in a humorous tone as he pulled her up.

Morrison looked up from his cover and looked at the drop ship. He saw a dark figure slowly come out of the ship. He aimed his pulse rifle at it in case it was a threat. Winston and the other agents looked at the same figure, ready to fight. "Come out!" ordered Morrison as some of the other soldiers and agents were ready to fight the unknown figure.

The dark figure limped forward, holding the edge of the ship with one hand and his side with the other. The figure was revealed to be an Overwatch soldier. He was wearing the signature Overwatch armor which was dented and scratched with deep gashes in a few locations. There was blood all around the armor, specifically emanating from the gashes and stab wounds. There was dust on his armor and his helmet was dented with one side of his visor cracked. His mouth and nose were revealed but they had scratches and blood was coming from his nose. He limped to the entrance of the ship and began to cough.

Everyone quickly put down their guard and ran to the wounded soldier. Morrison was closest as he saw the soldier attempt to come off the ship but stagger and fall forward, landing on his chest and started to cough again. Morrison dropped his pulse rifle and slowly turned over the soldier "Soldier, what happened!?" he asked. Mercy came to the soldier and began to heal what she could as he spoke to Morrison.

"My squad and I *cough* we were attacked *cough*." He said weakly

"By who?" asked Morrison

"*cough*…Talon." He said.

Winston and the others were not surprised by another talon attack but this one seemed the most strange for some reason. Mercy was having a hard time healing the severely wounded soldier but was determined to not let him die.

"How did this happen?" asked Winston as he came up behind Morrison.

"There*cough*…there were only 20 soldiers. We knew we could take them *cough* until re-enforcements arrived."

"Why didn't you call for support?" asked Morrison

"We tried *cough**cough* our communications were being jammed. Then a Talon agent not like the others showed up with the reinforcements. He*cough* he told his soldiers to stand down and when they did…He attacked."

The Agents and other soldiers looked shocked as they came around the injured soldier. Winston noticed and said "not so close, give him some room!" ordered Winston, holding his arm up to stop them from surrounding the man. The soldiers and other agents did as they were told and took only a few steps back so they could hear.

"Who?" asked Morrison

"…Talon's leader."

The agents and soldiers gasped. There was never a confirmed report of Talon's leader in any of their attacks. Now was the first time they were hearing of it and they were honestly frightened. Mercy was making progress in healing the soldier's more severe wounds on his torso.

"H-he fought at an inhuman speed and took out my whole squad in a matter of seconds with some kind of blades on his forearms. I only got a glimpse of him before he got to me too. *cough* he acted more brutal towards me and took his time injuring me. My vision was blurry when I heard him say 'I'm sending you as a message. Tell them…Talon is coming to finish them off.'

The words of the leader freaked out everyone, including Morrison. The agents and soldiers began to discuss amongst themselves about the danger they were in. Morrison looked at Mercy who had healed the soldier enough to keep him sustained enough to bring him to the med bay. Morrison looked at some soldiers and asked "I need volunteers to get him back to the med bay." Five soldiers stepped forward and brought over a stretcher to carry the soldier back to the med bay. Mercy followed them and the soldiers left the Overwatch agents to converse amongst themselves.

"If Talon is planning a major attack on us then they are going to hit us with everything they got." Said Morrison.

"I should have seen this coming. I knew the attacks were becoming rare. If only I let them know then maybe I could have prevented our soldiers deaths." Said Winston regretfully.

Tracer put a comforting hand on Winston's shoulder and said "Don't blame yourself luv. There's no way you could've known."

"Perhaps Talon heard of our reformation and is more determined than ever to take us down for good. Their actions have been mainly stealing advanced weaponry and hunting down former agents. If they are truly coming to finish us then we must begin preparing since now." Suggested Genji

"Agreed" started Morrison "Winston, keep an eye out for any Talon activity in our area." Winston nodded "As for the rest of us, we'll need to take shifts patrolling around the base in case they manage to jam our signal. Lena, McCree, and I will take the first watch. I'll inform the rest of you when it is your turn. But everyone be ready to fight when the time comes."

The rest of the agents went back to their daily routine until it was their turn to patrol.

Talon headquarters-unknown location (8:30pm)

There was a large dark room with monitors on both sides and a center table that had a projection of earth on it, similar to Winston's. Talon's soldiers were around the table and in front of them on one side of the table was, Reaper, Widowmaker, and Sombra; Talon's highest ranking agents. They stood silently as a dark figure talked to them from the shadows. The only thing seen was an outline of his body and on his helmet was a glowing red 'T' which must have been his visor. A deep voice echoed in the room as he said to his agents

"Glad you could all join me. In exactly 3 days, we are going to attack Overwatch's base in Gibraltar and eliminate the remaining Overwatch agents once and for all."

"And Morrison?" asked reaper.

Talon turned to Reaper and said "We'll save him for you. Given your past it only makes sense to give you the honor of killing him. Just don't screw it up." Said Talon sternly.

Talon looked to Widowmaker and said "when we attack, you get the high ground and take out as many people as you can." Widowmaker nodded.

Last was Sombra. "Sombra, you are our key to getting inside. You especially better not mess up or I'll have your head."

Sombra gulped in fear and nodded slowly. Talon looked at everyone in the room and said "Prepare everything and everyone. When we attack, I want all our weapons and soldiers ready. Overwatch won't know what hit them."

Fade to Black…

AN: This is the first chapter of my first Overwatch fanfiction. I have to say, I deeply enjoy the game and the unique characters that are involved in it. I thought it was time to make a tribute to Blizzard's first First Person Shooter. I have spent countless hours on Wikipedia looking up all the characters backstories and am hoping to make my fic as accurate as possible in terms of their unique personalities.

Stay tuned for the next chapter because a lot is about to happen ;D

I read all my comments, so if anyone has suggestions or just want to leave a review then please feel free too. Or if you want feel free to PM me.